Kingdom Hearts is my favourite game ever. Played it as I was coming of age, and so was Sora, and I'm a huge Disney/FF fan, so everything just coalesced. The soundtrack is also phenomenally beautiful. It's neither unpopular or bad, though. The series is huge and critically acclaimed.
I enjoyed Path of Neo, and Enter the Matrix. They tapped into the weird and cool unseen stuff in that universe that I got a kick out of. Some of the training missions in Path are very Animatrix-esque and bonkers. I enjoyed finding glitches, like that librarian who obsessively puts books back in their right place, muttering to herself.
Was Red Faction 2 disliked? I feel like I remember it was. I really enjoyed it.
Tell me about it. When I listened to the IGN podcasts when I was like 15, I emailed in one time, and got big laughs when they read it out. The next time I emailed, I gave a genuine and reasoned response about something, then pretended to have some kind of mental episode so the content of my comment descended into an awful tirade. Guess what? They only read the dank bit, and dead silence ensued for five seconds. Without the context of the reasoned argument I made which was my real response, saying you wished everyone involved in making a bad game got AIDS and their AIDS got AIDS just sounds like a hate speech, when I was in fact making a mockery of people who act like that. I came across like a total sicko; lesson learned.
Live and learn, always. I'm a better person when every tomorrow arrives, and I remind myself that what you say, or how people perceive what you say, can teeter on a knife-edge, even against all of your intentions. Irony was turned on me that day!
There's a great UK movie called Threads that also depicts nuclear fallout very well. The scenes of the family trapped while the radiation makes them sweat unbearably for days and days and their nausea becomes constant, listening to the radio hopelessly, is terrifying.
@mezza: I am getting a flow for the constant switching since deciding to view my weapons as disposable tools. Actually fighting was no issue, I can fight off multiple upper-echelon dudes at once with my measly four heart containers (I buffed my stamina twice; need to focus on health next). The combat shrine fight gave me an axe with a 60 rating. The highest I saw was 20 before that, ha.
Having an amazing time anyway. Thanks for the encouraging info! I feel better about the mechanics now.
I took some comments to heart and decided to try playing with no love of my weapons at all -- as counter-intuitive as that is -- and I've found it more manageable. They do break way too easily at this early stage, I won't pretend that feels good or is clever game design. It is kind of oppressive. Just 20% more durability on the lesser weapons would be enough to get more enjoyment out of fighting, for me, but if people like it that's fine. It's certainly different. It's just weird when a huge sledgehammer breaks so quickly.
I did a combat shrine and went through all seven of my melee weapons and all bows. Literally killed the automaton on the last strike of my final weapon before it shattered. Crazy! He dropped some dope gear that I will hate to lose.
Yeah, the weapons so far in my ten hours with it break every 10-20 hits or something; that is ridiculous. Also the ragdolling when you get hit hard is tedious. Enemies notice you so quickly, too, and the chests that unlock when you clear them out have been underwhelming so far. I've been doing the same as you, and that is where the game shines. Those shrines are brilliant, the villages are delightful, and the characters are fabulous. The combat involves too much management from what I've done so far is all. The side-dodge is a pathetic little jump that doesn't help much at all. Doing a perfect dodge seems the only way to make it satisfying, when it goes slo-mo.
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